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This photograph of two Jews reduces them to an abstraction, a single black shape, in a composition that includes the round shapes of manhole covers, the curving black lines of a street grating, and…
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Pesi Girsch
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1997
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Shooting Targets, five photographs by Ophir that appear in the Necropolis Series, a joint work with Roi Kuper, depict Mercedes jeeps captured by the Israeli army during the Six Day War and Yom Kippur…
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Gilad Ophir
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1997
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This photograph of a bare-chested young man flexing his muscles in front of an army tent is one of the best-known images in Nes’s “Soldiers” series, an exploration of Israeli identity and masculinity…
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Adi Nes
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1996
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This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1935–1945
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An eruv is a symbolic boundary around a certain area, which extends the boundaries of the home on the Sabbath, when carrying objects in public spaces is forbidden by Jewish law. Calle used the concept…
Contributor:
Sophie Calle
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1996
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Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Six Day War is this one, of three Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall shortly after its capture by the Israeli army on the third day of the war. A few…
Contributor:
David Rubinger
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1967
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Micha Bar-Am took this intimate photograph of Golda Meir soon after she became prime minister of Israel. She was the world’s fourth female prime minister and, as of 2022, the only woman to hold the…
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Micha Bar-Am
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1970
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Nahal Oz, located in the Negev close to the border of the Gaza strip, was founded in 1951 as Israel’s first Nahal settlement. These were established by soldiers to provide a first line of defense…
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Boris Carmi
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1954
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Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
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Alfons Himmelreich
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940
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The National and University Library building, designed by Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, is a cube supported by free-standing columns, with glass walls on the ground floor. It is a prime example of the…
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Ziva Armoni, Hanan Hebron
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1960